The bot trap requires that the robots.txt be ignored and information we have intentionally not allowed be accessed in order to trigger the trap.
On finding a specific set of instructions for itself, Bingbot will ignore the directives listed in the generic section, so you need to repeat all the general ...
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Your robots.txt file does not do what (I think) you intend it to do because you do not use blank lines between the sections.
Open up the robots. txt to allow Bing to crawl the site. Restrict the crawling to the home page only and exclude all the other pages from the ...
According to this answer, this is Bingbot checking for an XML sitemap generated by the Bing Sitemap Plugin for IIS and Apache.
Useful robots.txt reminder - if you create a section for #Bingbot specifically, all the default directives will be ignored (except Crawl-Delay).
Specify directives for Bingbot. “If you create a section for Bingbot specifically, all the default directives will be ignored (except Crawl- ...
Learn how to block URLs and cached pages from showing up in the Bing search results using the NOINDEX metatag or the Block URLs tool.
It was blocked by robots.txt but Bing chose to ignore it. I even tried "blocking" the URLs in Bing webmaster tools today and this was the response:.
What Bing are saying is that we put a header on all of our sites. Bing robots see that header and don't try to index your site. This is a courtesy on both sides ...